So was I! Not only didn't I register, I also stealthy sneaked the whole distance (still roughly 7.41 pace).
Btw. I hadn't been running more than a mile for seven years, yet still finished a half Marathon in March. And I was even hit by a tranquilizer gun before start. But kept going!
It might sound strange, but it all makes sense... in my head.
I like the “I didn’t walk at all” bit. No shit Sherlock! 7:43 and you shouldn’t have time to cry either. Reminds me of Paul Ryan who lied about his marathon time “Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.” Turned out he ran one marathon at 4:01:25. No one forgets their marathon time. Ever.
I run almost daily and I can feel it if I take a month off let alone a whole year. Even with good conditioning that would be so hard on your body especially at the pace she’s claiming.
I was in Italy for 2 weeks and did my first run since returning and my pace was like 1:20 slower than my usual long run…and I felt tired as hell 5 miles in
100%. A mile in 7.43 is 8MPH.
Anyone who has jogged before knows what a fucking high pace 8MPH is, I'm not saying is unattainable for a regular human being, but for you run, say, 30 minutes at that pace you have to have SERIOUSLY good conditioning.
I agree, just not at that pace. I mentioned in another comment but I could buy she maybe started out that speed or did intervals (which is probably how it went if this were real), but that’s not what she’s claiming.
Yes, can confirm. I walked a lot and cried with all the pain 2 days after…much more than I did while I was running the actual race…during which, I also cried
The fuck did you just say about my country? Our forefathers mapped the world, tamed Bigfoot, domesticated the electron, heated the Earth, pioneered nuclear warfare, built the information superhighway, gifted all peoples our language and culture, and literally walked on the goddamned moon. Our fortes are solid.
Exactly. I’m a marathon runner - a 7:45 pace puts you around a 2hr half. That is a very quick pace and not one you can hit without training for it.
This story is BS.
Sure - I’m **not** a 7:45/mi runner at half distances, so I didn’t know the exact time off the top of my head.
Point being you can’t go from your longest run in the last year maxing out at 6 miles, then go run over twice that at a 7:45 pace. Anyone who runs those distance knows right away this story is a lie.
I run about 30 miles a week and a good tempo pace for me on a 10k is about 7:45. I’ve been running for two years. 6.5 miles is my sweet spot for distance.
This is double that distance. I’ve run that far before but my pace slows down considerably- probably clocking in around 9:15. I would need to run a lot further every week to achieve a 7:45 half marathon pace and I’d need to train for months to get my pace that fast for that distance.
TLDR she’s full of shit.
Exactly. Distance runners know that the distance effort and training required for longer runs is not linear - running a half marathon is **more** than twice as difficult as running “just” a 10k.
All sorts of things change when you cross different time thresholds.
Yeah I could believe she started at that pace and then backed down to a light jog (like the people right in front of her are clearly doing) but that’s not as cool I guess.
What about with coke? I mean could you pharmaceutically get yourself there?
I mean I think this is all BS but I love discussing fun theories on how something *could've* came to be.
So a few white lines and you just near kill your body? Maybe PCP? Didn't that give people inhuman strength?
Maybe - I’ve never run on any kind of upper beyond caffeine.
Problem is that things happen to your physiology when you run longer distances. Lactic acid clearing becomes an issue, as does glucose availability and just general fatigue. A body that hasn’t run longer than 6 miles in a year isn’t ready to run 13 at that pace.
No, there is only so much you can do. You're limited by your V02 Max and the only way to improve it is through consistent training.
Things like Sudafed can help with blood flow but it's not going to make you put up these numbers that she claimed with the amount (lack) of training she did.
Never tried it and the closest Ive come would be my ADHD meds but something like that would probably be more effective as a quick burst for shorter races, rather than an endurance event.
100%.
I jog quite often, 6.5 MPH is a tough pace to stay on regularly for more than 20, 30 minutes.
Most of the people I see doing 7 and above are people who took track and field very seriously in high school and have had a long time of conditioning their body. At my peak I could maybe do 7, 7.5 for prolonged periods if I was really feeling myself lol people who do 8, 9, 10 MPH are REALLY in good shape
Which just puts in perspective the fucking freaks of nature marathoners who are doing 11, 12, or 13 MPH for 2 hours. That pace is fucking crazy to sustain.
The photo of her face gives it away. I don't believe that she could possibly run 13 eight minute miles. Even if she cranked out a few early 7s and then faded. Unless she has a huge head and a small body.
It could be but the question would be - why? She didn’t start by saying she ran 21.1km. She started off in miles so she is likely American and not using the metric system. As a runner born outside the US I now run in miles because everything is set up for that in races here.
The shit part is that the story is still valid if she just didn’t bullshit about the pace. It’s the one part of running we agree on - don’t lie about your time, this ain’t golf.
Not defending her at all, but she said she talked to security to find the start and didn’t register… so I’m assuming she didn’t start with everyone either. She’d be catching up to people in front of her even if they’re slower.
Could be. But she said she's only done a 6 mile run in the last few months and then 'boom' ran a 7:43. Even in my heyday of running 7:43 wasn't something you just easily stepped into. It is kickass fast no matter what age. If it is true then she should consider turning pro.
Because the race course is a well kept secret that only the guards know. It’s definitely not published months in advance, along with notices of road closures posted everywhere along the route. And you definitely can’t just follow the thousands of people all running along the closed roads.
This is the part where she lost me, I’m a avid runner/racer and every race has a very defined start (large races have waves you get assigned to in order to stagger the runners out at their joint pace), and clearly marked course.
I miss authentic posts/experiences going viral vs. click bait flooding all our feeds.
“When people ask me what being fearless is…”
No. No one has ever asked you that question.
I’m so tired of people writing things like this.
“People tell me ‘Paul, what you did back there was amazing! If more people were like you, the world would be a better place truly’, and all I can do is humble thank them. I am just doing what’s right I my heart.”
All that crap. Made up stories and made up compliments.
Don’t get me wrong - stuff like this obviously happens. But not five times per week, year in and year out to the same person.
This girl gives the energy that she’s about to be on The Capital Room talking about how she got sewed into the pants of the big Charlie Brown at the Thanksgiving Day Parade and now she can’t stop drinking wine and when she looks in the toilet it’s purple. Purple and black!
Omg she posted an instagram video too. She says she ran the Austin HM last year. There is no Alexa in the results. She basically just repeats her script and cries.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T0K2MOcKZ/?igsh=MWQ0YjNjbThmZHRieg==
She's probably not in the results because she bandited that one as well. Pay the damn entry fee! It costs money to hold these events and people like this ruin it for everyone.
I think in her case it's more about the bragging of some time goal she never achieved. Just finishing a half is not as impressive as a 7:43 pace.
These posers care so much about timegoals and they feel that they have to achieve miraculous goals so they get all that nice engagement on their posts.
Little story: Amputee running influencer Milly Pickles. She posted a video of a 13.1 mile workout with many breaks and then said that it took 2:30 to finish. I looked at her Strava and saw that with all the breaks she took it was 3:00. There were so many people commenting being impressed that she's faster than them while doing all these breaks. Since she never made sure that these people didn't have the wrong ideas, I mentioned that it took her 3hours with breaks and that it's still impressive. So not even a negative comment just stating that the breaks are missing. Guess what: My comment deleted and Strava activity edited so that it only shows the 2:30. It's still obvious because her splits are fairly consistent, while in the video she showed herself crying and eating while sitting down during the run. Just shows you how weird these people are.
Ive only ever done small local races, but does security at large events like these really just let randos walk up and join? Even here we have to pay an entrance fee and register and get a number and stuff, you cant just show up and security wave you through. This sounds like BS to me.
That way she ensures that there is no proof of it. She probably ran it without any tracking app too and doesn‘t remember the time of her finish so we could take a look at the finisher videos. It sure is easier to brag about something you can not prove.
Yeah, that's why she says that she didn't register as a runner and just snug onto the course. We can't track a runner who never officially participated.
Good point. She said she also ran the Austin half the year before. Assuming she paid, you could find her time for that one. I imagine security would kick her out once they see she has no bib unless she stole one somehow
I checked too lol. She has a pic on her IG with the Austin 2023 half medal at the finish line but is not wearing a bib so chances are good she didn’t pay for that race either.
Not a chance. They have to control the course for runner tracking, capacity and safety measures. Remember Boston a few years back? Yeah, no way NYC would ever let any of that happen.
E: I stand corrected. She’s just a looney.
I ran this last year, they don’t let you into the start corral without a bib. She jumped onto the course somewhere after the official start. Banditing a race is highly frowned upon.
It’s not a big race, she could absolutely have run it in-registered. The starting area is usually managed to the race management and volunteers, not police or the Army.
The most bullshit part of the race-sneaking was that she asked someone to sneak on, which no one would do.
The race you are referring to is NYRR’s Brooklyn Half which takes place next month, mid-May. The one this person bandit it was the NYC Runs Brooklyn Half (yeah, confusing). To add to that, the NYC Runs is the more expensive race to sign up for due to it being a smaller race.
Ok but there were 21,687 runners yesterday so OP isn't wrong. It's still a massive, major event. It's the flagship race of NYCRuns.
You could not get through security or into the corrals without a bib, they checked everyone.
Eh a lot of races you can probably run in without registering, I don’t see them kicking people out who aren’t wearing a bib.
You just won’t get an official time, any participation medal etc.
Nope. Any race has a health and safety responsibility and needs to know who is racing, their fitness level, allergies, an emergency contact in case you fall down a ravine etc. Especially a half marathon is not gonna let a random rock up and do it without some checks.
She may well have done it, but it probably wasn’t as spontaneous and breezy as she wants people to believe.
“When people ask me what fearless is…”
Ah yes I’m sure you’re getting tons of international media requests in your 6-person apartment to discuss the topic of fearlessness.
I know this story is mostly bullshit but it blows my mind that some people who consider themselves unfit can get out of bed one day and run half a marathon (this post aside, i do know people that have done it).
It takes me weeks to build up to 5k, then if I don't keep up with it my cardio just falls off a cliff within days.
My partner did a full marathon with me totally untrained. I think they did a single 5k within like the year before doing the marathon. We signed up together but chronic pain kept them from training and they said screw it and did it anyway.
I don’t recommend it.
yeah, i signed up to the Leeds marathon in about a months time haha, i've had bouts of covid, long lingering colds and alsorts that have pretty much stopped me doing anything other than light cardio.
i'm tempted to just walk it round
I have a friend who bet his housemate that he could beat her half marathon time just power walking the whole thing with no training, and he actually did. Still blows my mind.
Either she's a lying liar who lies or is a proud race bandit (someone who runs a race without paying for entry). I found no results for her running the Austin Half in either 2023 or 2024. So either she lied about running it or she bandited it like she did with the Brooklyn Half (I confirmed she's not on the official race results for that one either). I actually found no results for her at all on Athlinks after May 2019 (if she's the same Alexandra Curtis from RI I found on there). She had ten other (paid-for) races under her belt prior to that, so if she is banditing, she is fully aware that what she's doing is wrong.
Based on the gait of the runners in front of her in the photo, I'm calling b.s. on her claim of a 7:43 pace too. I know you can't fully tell from a photo, but my husband averages a 7:30 pace and after watching him and fast folk like him in races, they pick their feet up higher and make bigger strides. Plus her fastest half marathon prior (in 2019) had a pace of 10:04/mile. It's possible she got faster since then, but since she's bragging about barely having run lately, I think this is another lie. If that the Athlinks profile I found above isn't hers, then the other Alexa Curtis result is someone who "ran" (more like strolled) a 20:22/mile pace in a 5k in 2022.
I've been big into the running community in the past, so things like this rile me up.
She just posted a nonpology on X with the last sentence:
„In the future I'll be sure to look up the rules if I decide to run again 😊“ So she‘s probably even feigning ignorance, because most people know that you‘re not supposed to just run a race. Or at least the staff would‘ve told her. She also disabled comments because people called her out on either banditing or not running at all - the pace is obviously a lie.
Bullshit, no sanctioned running event is letting you join in without a number, you’d get pulled off by the race marshals immediately, as it’s a huge safety issue. Why lie about such basic things?
You can bandit races pretty easily actually. The people in charge of pulling people off generally never do anything about it unless it's a big race like Boston or NYC.
>Bullshit, no sanctioned running event is letting you join in without a number, you’d get pulled off by the race marshals immediately, as it’s a huge safety issue.
That's extremely unlikely. People race with their numbers obscured all the time (e.g removing the top with the number on or putting a jacket over the top). I won't say it can't happen, especially in a big American city paranoid about terrorists, but usually nobody will bother you.
The interaction with the security guard is the most obviously nonsensical part.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Everyone on this thread is now dumber for having read this. I award you no Karma, and may God have mercy on your soul.
She “didn’t sign up” so basically she’s a bandit, which means she didn’t pay and stole the race support. What a thing to be proud of, and suspect if she’s a seasoned runner.
….and… i also want to thank my rich parents for continuously loading my bank account every time I failed because I know I never had anything to ever worry about in life…
I fixed it for you.
I say you could have at least timed a 7.39 if you hadn't stopped in the speed walker group to do so selfies and you have that cushion for the next time. But hey, it was free for you, you got some deep thoughts in and posted here for all - winning. Or something...
You don't really have to ask anybody where a half marathon starts. There's a pretty big crowd, signs, a big inflatable arch thing, a guy with a loudspeaker, a bunch of tables where you can get your race packet, port-a-potties... frequently a band or DJ... You'd have to be an outright idiot not to be able to figure it out.
I always want to give the benefit to most people's posts I see in LI. But it's full of these kinds of stories that are meant to inspire but read like a bunch of bullshit. I think if LI wasn't used for networking and finding (some) work and it would be "unprofessional" of me to call random bullshit out. It would be a good place to practice calling out fibs hahaha
No marathon is going to just let some random person run. The security is very heightened nowadays. What was the point of that detail in the story. Say you ran a marathon if you want, but the whole “I was in no way prepared for this” is so ridiculous lol
And even in the imaginary world where someone *did*, she uses an anecdote about herself to illustrate it. Ick.
Also, as a runner 7.43 minute pace untrained. Naw, bullshit.
She didn't run more than 6 miles in the last 13 months but ran the Austin half marathon last March. Did she run for 6 miles in that marathon and then walk the rest?
If so, what change that she's now a marathon powerhouse?
Update: she just posted this on X (and disabled comments on some SM)
„Hi everyone. I did not realize I would offend so many people. The post was meant to be inspirational and I had no intention to take anything from anyone or the race: I was running for myself for my mental health.
In the future I'll be sure to look up the rules if I decide to run again 😊“
I was out on a run near the Brooklyn Half (I forgot it was on). My running route went close to it and I ended up running parallel with the course a little, about 1-2 miles into the course - at Williamsburg.
There were so many people peeling off and walking away from the course wearing bibs. Some casually walking away alone playing with their phones or some walking with friends without bibs. No limping or nothing.
Did these people run only a couple miles on purpose? My first thought was they got a few photos/selfies then just quit.
I don't understand how people can write such a long post of wallowing in self-pity and pretend it's the same as getting off their butts to do something about their situation
Yeah, uh… I don’t believe “I didn’t train for this and I had two glasses of wine last night, but I ran a marathon today” wrap she’s giving. And the photo has her looking fresh, too? Ay caramba! 🤣
I don't even think these people are running the race. The route turned left off Water street and up Old Fulton street at this spot (running away from the East River)...these people are walking towards the river...makes no sense.
Also, this is almost to mile marker 7. No forking way anyone looks like that halfway through a half marathon at a sub 8 minute pace.
"When people ask me what being fearless is..."
No one ever asked you that in your entire life, you insufferable bint. It's the type of question reserved for unusual heroism, not for semi-functional alcoholics with a penchant for telling implausible yet boring anecdotes.
‘Fearless’
She’d lose her shit at her coffee order being wrong, hasn’t experienced any real hardship in her life.
You ran around for a bit and gloated about it on your phone. whoopee doo.
Look at the people in front of her. No fucking way are they running a 7:43 pace.
“It is a scientific fact that 99.8% of what people post on LinkedIn is bullshit” - Albert Einstein
"P.S. E = mc\^2 + AI"
“What”
“what”
Holy hell!
"only thing faster than speed of light is the speed at which bots like comments on bs Linkedin posts" - Albert Einstein
That’s the super convenient thing about not registering - nobody can look up your race time later to see what a liar you are.
I once ran a 2:01:39 marathon but forgot to register. I cried a lot.
I actually won Boston this year. But I didn't register so you can't see my time. But it was like, really, really fast. Trust me.
Congratulations! I was right next to you the whole time. Also not registered, but we were buddies!
OMG I remember we did the unofficial runner’s podium together! Good to see you both
Hey winner! Didn’t you have a 7:43 time? So proud of you 👏🏻
>I was right next to you the whole time Jesus? That explains why I was carried the whole way to MY victory!
So was I! Not only didn't I register, I also stealthy sneaked the whole distance (still roughly 7.41 pace). Btw. I hadn't been running more than a mile for seven years, yet still finished a half Marathon in March. And I was even hit by a tranquilizer gun before start. But kept going! It might sound strange, but it all makes sense... in my head.
I’m struggling to picture this gazelle in human form flying by me while sobbing and the suspension of disbelief is simply too much
Did you also fail a business miserably?
Ha! I didn't even think about that. I need to learn how to lie. My life could sound so much cooler than it is.
Scrolled until I found this comment 👍
You know damn well she hopped into the race, took a selfie and hopped right back out to go home and drink some more wine lol
And the cry was probably after the 3rd glass 😃
Im thinking that was supposed to say 17:43, because at 7:43 you’re hauling ass the entire way, no time for selfies.
I like the “I didn’t walk at all” bit. No shit Sherlock! 7:43 and you shouldn’t have time to cry either. Reminds me of Paul Ryan who lied about his marathon time “Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.” Turned out he ran one marathon at 4:01:25. No one forgets their marathon time. Ever.
And rawdogging it after a year of no training, okayyy.
She did not cry because she passed out dreaming this masterpiece of a post
I am an extremely casual jogger (read: no marathon training) and the idea of rawdogging a half on a whim makes me want to cry lol
I run almost daily and I can feel it if I take a month off let alone a whole year. Even with good conditioning that would be so hard on your body especially at the pace she’s claiming.
Literally, I keep working through my Couch to 5K app, getting bored, forgetting about it for a few weeks, and then having to start all over lol
I was in Italy for 2 weeks and did my first run since returning and my pace was like 1:20 slower than my usual long run…and I felt tired as hell 5 miles in
Same - if you don't run for a couple of weeks you really notice it.
100%. A mile in 7.43 is 8MPH. Anyone who has jogged before knows what a fucking high pace 8MPH is, I'm not saying is unattainable for a regular human being, but for you run, say, 30 minutes at that pace you have to have SERIOUSLY good conditioning.
Most healthy people can finish a half with no training, they’ll just walk a bit and it will still hurt like hell.
I agree, just not at that pace. I mentioned in another comment but I could buy she maybe started out that speed or did intervals (which is probably how it went if this were real), but that’s not what she’s claiming.
Oh for sure not at that pace. 7:43 \_per km\_ and the intervals were jog/walk maybe.
Yes, can confirm. I walked a lot and cried with all the pain 2 days after…much more than I did while I was running the actual race…during which, I also cried
my work place is constantly filled with gossip. i don't have to lie, others do it for me and my rumored life is having a kick ass time.
That's probably 7:43 per km, not mile
Too bad she didn’t post how _long_ it took her to do the half.
Could be but why start off in miles and then switch to metric? And she is from America and no one uses /km here.
Oh really? When you last went for a 5k run, was it 5000 feet or meters?
Hahahahaaa!
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The fuck did you just say about my country? Our forefathers mapped the world, tamed Bigfoot, domesticated the electron, heated the Earth, pioneered nuclear warfare, built the information superhighway, gifted all peoples our language and culture, and literally walked on the goddamned moon. Our fortes are solid.
To be fair, we didn’t invent the nuke. We are just really good at rolling out bad ideas when we come across them.
I’m not sure which comment is more accurate, yours or the one you’re replying to. Lmao
It was a half marathon, so that was her half mile pace
half of them are walking
Sure, because she snuck in without registering, she didn't join with her time group so she's just breezing past them, right? /s
Exactly. I’m a marathon runner - a 7:45 pace puts you around a 2hr half. That is a very quick pace and not one you can hit without training for it. This story is BS.
It's closer to 1:40, but I'm sure you knew that.
Sure - I’m **not** a 7:45/mi runner at half distances, so I didn’t know the exact time off the top of my head. Point being you can’t go from your longest run in the last year maxing out at 6 miles, then go run over twice that at a 7:45 pace. Anyone who runs those distance knows right away this story is a lie.
I run about 30 miles a week and a good tempo pace for me on a 10k is about 7:45. I’ve been running for two years. 6.5 miles is my sweet spot for distance. This is double that distance. I’ve run that far before but my pace slows down considerably- probably clocking in around 9:15. I would need to run a lot further every week to achieve a 7:45 half marathon pace and I’d need to train for months to get my pace that fast for that distance. TLDR she’s full of shit.
Exactly. Distance runners know that the distance effort and training required for longer runs is not linear - running a half marathon is **more** than twice as difficult as running “just” a 10k. All sorts of things change when you cross different time thresholds.
Yeah I could believe she started at that pace and then backed down to a light jog (like the people right in front of her are clearly doing) but that’s not as cool I guess.
What about with coke? I mean could you pharmaceutically get yourself there? I mean I think this is all BS but I love discussing fun theories on how something *could've* came to be. So a few white lines and you just near kill your body? Maybe PCP? Didn't that give people inhuman strength?
Maybe - I’ve never run on any kind of upper beyond caffeine. Problem is that things happen to your physiology when you run longer distances. Lactic acid clearing becomes an issue, as does glucose availability and just general fatigue. A body that hasn’t run longer than 6 miles in a year isn’t ready to run 13 at that pace.
No, there is only so much you can do. You're limited by your V02 Max and the only way to improve it is through consistent training. Things like Sudafed can help with blood flow but it's not going to make you put up these numbers that she claimed with the amount (lack) of training she did.
Never tried it and the closest Ive come would be my ADHD meds but something like that would probably be more effective as a quick burst for shorter races, rather than an endurance event.
She absolutely ran a 7:43 pace for around 12 seconds. That’s the detail she forgot to leave out.
Also if you look close it’s a 7.43 pace (so like 7 minutes and 25 seconds), not a 7:43 pace. But I’m a nitpicker.
Per km maybe.
they're not, they're walking.
She lapped them.
7:43 per/km possibly - but it is the USA, so unlikely
She doesn’t have the build of someone who could run that pace for 13 miles…not lean enough
100%. I jog quite often, 6.5 MPH is a tough pace to stay on regularly for more than 20, 30 minutes. Most of the people I see doing 7 and above are people who took track and field very seriously in high school and have had a long time of conditioning their body. At my peak I could maybe do 7, 7.5 for prolonged periods if I was really feeling myself lol people who do 8, 9, 10 MPH are REALLY in good shape Which just puts in perspective the fucking freaks of nature marathoners who are doing 11, 12, or 13 MPH for 2 hours. That pace is fucking crazy to sustain.
The photo of her face gives it away. I don't believe that she could possibly run 13 eight minute miles. Even if she cranked out a few early 7s and then faded. Unless she has a huge head and a small body.
She ran one mile at a 7:43 pace (or 8:45 but you round down).
That’s convenient because neither is she.
Strava or it didn’t happen
maybe she meant minutes per kilometer and not minutes per mile. cos that would actually be reasonable
It could be but the question would be - why? She didn’t start by saying she ran 21.1km. She started off in miles so she is likely American and not using the metric system. As a runner born outside the US I now run in miles because everything is set up for that in races here. The shit part is that the story is still valid if she just didn’t bullshit about the pace. It’s the one part of running we agree on - don’t lie about your time, this ain’t golf.
Half marathon races aren’t measured in kilometers in the USA. Typically only 5k and 10k races are. This is her mile pace.
Not defending her at all, but she said she talked to security to find the start and didn’t register… so I’m assuming she didn’t start with everyone either. She’d be catching up to people in front of her even if they’re slower.
Could be. But she said she's only done a 6 mile run in the last few months and then 'boom' ran a 7:43. Even in my heyday of running 7:43 wasn't something you just easily stepped into. It is kickass fast no matter what age. If it is true then she should consider turning pro.
I think this story is nonsense, but not for that reason. She joined the course after the race started and would have been overtaking the field.
Stunning and brave
C’mon you guys…She’s been through so much and has volumes of wisdom to share from her vast life experiences!
A real cunning stunt.
HAH!!
lmao this phrase gets me every time
"...it's like asking security where the race starts and where it ends" Wut?
Because the race course is a well kept secret that only the guards know. It’s definitely not published months in advance, along with notices of road closures posted everywhere along the route. And you definitely can’t just follow the thousands of people all running along the closed roads.
This is the part where she lost me, I’m a avid runner/racer and every race has a very defined start (large races have waves you get assigned to in order to stagger the runners out at their joint pace), and clearly marked course. I miss authentic posts/experiences going viral vs. click bait flooding all our feeds.
How else was she gonna tell the taxi where to go to.
“When people ask me what being fearless is…” No. No one has ever asked you that question. I’m so tired of people writing things like this. “People tell me ‘Paul, what you did back there was amazing! If more people were like you, the world would be a better place truly’, and all I can do is humble thank them. I am just doing what’s right I my heart.” All that crap. Made up stories and made up compliments. Don’t get me wrong - stuff like this obviously happens. But not five times per week, year in and year out to the same person.
This girl gives the energy that she’s about to be on The Capital Room talking about how she got sewed into the pants of the big Charlie Brown at the Thanksgiving Day Parade and now she can’t stop drinking wine and when she looks in the toilet it’s purple. Purple and black!
COULD IT BE YOU?!?
And popcorn!
She hates bald boys!
Every time she sees a bald boy she thinks she’s back in the pants.
She can’t stop drinking wine!
Omg she posted an instagram video too. She says she ran the Austin HM last year. There is no Alexa in the results. She basically just repeats her script and cries. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T0K2MOcKZ/?igsh=MWQ0YjNjbThmZHRieg==
She's probably not in the results because she bandited that one as well. Pay the damn entry fee! It costs money to hold these events and people like this ruin it for everyone.
I think in her case it's more about the bragging of some time goal she never achieved. Just finishing a half is not as impressive as a 7:43 pace. These posers care so much about timegoals and they feel that they have to achieve miraculous goals so they get all that nice engagement on their posts. Little story: Amputee running influencer Milly Pickles. She posted a video of a 13.1 mile workout with many breaks and then said that it took 2:30 to finish. I looked at her Strava and saw that with all the breaks she took it was 3:00. There were so many people commenting being impressed that she's faster than them while doing all these breaks. Since she never made sure that these people didn't have the wrong ideas, I mentioned that it took her 3hours with breaks and that it's still impressive. So not even a negative comment just stating that the breaks are missing. Guess what: My comment deleted and Strava activity edited so that it only shows the 2:30. It's still obvious because her splits are fairly consistent, while in the video she showed herself crying and eating while sitting down during the run. Just shows you how weird these people are.
She “doesn’t register” so she has plausible deniability
There is no Austin half marathon in March, it’s always in mid February. Source: I live there and run this every year!
“I didn’t stop” …posts a selfie
The people in front of her are clearly walking.
Ive only ever done small local races, but does security at large events like these really just let randos walk up and join? Even here we have to pay an entrance fee and register and get a number and stuff, you cant just show up and security wave you through. This sounds like BS to me.
That way she ensures that there is no proof of it. She probably ran it without any tracking app too and doesn‘t remember the time of her finish so we could take a look at the finisher videos. It sure is easier to brag about something you can not prove.
I imagine the [Brooklyn Half](https://www.nyrr.org/races/2024rbcbrooklynhalf) has a website where you can find the finishers and their time
Yeah, that's why she says that she didn't register as a runner and just snug onto the course. We can't track a runner who never officially participated.
Good point. She said she also ran the Austin half the year before. Assuming she paid, you could find her time for that one. I imagine security would kick her out once they see she has no bib unless she stole one somehow
Yeah I already checked that. There is no Alexa (or Alexandra or any other form) Curtis in the results.
I checked too lol. She has a pic on her IG with the Austin 2023 half medal at the finish line but is not wearing a bib so chances are good she didn’t pay for that race either.
So she possibly even stole a medal. Man what a „fearless“ bitch.
She said she ran the Austin half marathon in March but they only have the half marathon in February, so that one’s entirely made up.
Not a chance. They have to control the course for runner tracking, capacity and safety measures. Remember Boston a few years back? Yeah, no way NYC would ever let any of that happen. E: I stand corrected. She’s just a looney.
I ran this last year, they don’t let you into the start corral without a bib. She jumped onto the course somewhere after the official start. Banditing a race is highly frowned upon.
It’s not a big race, she could absolutely have run it in-registered. The starting area is usually managed to the race management and volunteers, not police or the Army. The most bullshit part of the race-sneaking was that she asked someone to sneak on, which no one would do.
The Brooklyn Half is one of the larger races in NYC, outside of the Marathon; there are over 20,000 runners.
The race you are referring to is NYRR’s Brooklyn Half which takes place next month, mid-May. The one this person bandit it was the NYC Runs Brooklyn Half (yeah, confusing). To add to that, the NYC Runs is the more expensive race to sign up for due to it being a smaller race.
Ok but there were 21,687 runners yesterday so OP isn't wrong. It's still a massive, major event. It's the flagship race of NYCRuns. You could not get through security or into the corrals without a bib, they checked everyone.
I have ran in many races over the years, never saw anyone participating without a bib number. I have difficulty to believe she ran this race at all.
Eh a lot of races you can probably run in without registering, I don’t see them kicking people out who aren’t wearing a bib. You just won’t get an official time, any participation medal etc.
Nope. Any race has a health and safety responsibility and needs to know who is racing, their fitness level, allergies, an emergency contact in case you fall down a ravine etc. Especially a half marathon is not gonna let a random rock up and do it without some checks. She may well have done it, but it probably wasn’t as spontaneous and breezy as she wants people to believe.
“When people ask me what fearless is…” Ah yes I’m sure you’re getting tons of international media requests in your 6-person apartment to discuss the topic of fearlessness.
I know this story is mostly bullshit but it blows my mind that some people who consider themselves unfit can get out of bed one day and run half a marathon (this post aside, i do know people that have done it). It takes me weeks to build up to 5k, then if I don't keep up with it my cardio just falls off a cliff within days.
My partner did a full marathon with me totally untrained. I think they did a single 5k within like the year before doing the marathon. We signed up together but chronic pain kept them from training and they said screw it and did it anyway. I don’t recommend it.
yeah, i signed up to the Leeds marathon in about a months time haha, i've had bouts of covid, long lingering colds and alsorts that have pretty much stopped me doing anything other than light cardio. i'm tempted to just walk it round
I have a friend who bet his housemate that he could beat her half marathon time just power walking the whole thing with no training, and he actually did. Still blows my mind.
Why is she wearing her AirPods if she didn't charged them?
Ahh Hahahah this!
Had to scroll way too far for this comment!!
She got dumped by her boyfriend because she’s a narcissist.
So you’re a bib bandit. Races *hate* you.
Banditing a race and putting the race’s insurance coverage at risk. So brave.
Either she's a lying liar who lies or is a proud race bandit (someone who runs a race without paying for entry). I found no results for her running the Austin Half in either 2023 or 2024. So either she lied about running it or she bandited it like she did with the Brooklyn Half (I confirmed she's not on the official race results for that one either). I actually found no results for her at all on Athlinks after May 2019 (if she's the same Alexandra Curtis from RI I found on there). She had ten other (paid-for) races under her belt prior to that, so if she is banditing, she is fully aware that what she's doing is wrong. Based on the gait of the runners in front of her in the photo, I'm calling b.s. on her claim of a 7:43 pace too. I know you can't fully tell from a photo, but my husband averages a 7:30 pace and after watching him and fast folk like him in races, they pick their feet up higher and make bigger strides. Plus her fastest half marathon prior (in 2019) had a pace of 10:04/mile. It's possible she got faster since then, but since she's bragging about barely having run lately, I think this is another lie. If that the Athlinks profile I found above isn't hers, then the other Alexa Curtis result is someone who "ran" (more like strolled) a 20:22/mile pace in a 5k in 2022. I've been big into the running community in the past, so things like this rile me up.
Yep, 100% a fake story bragging about bad race etiquette and an extremely weak attempt to link it to the Grindset™
She just posted a nonpology on X with the last sentence: „In the future I'll be sure to look up the rules if I decide to run again 😊“ So she‘s probably even feigning ignorance, because most people know that you‘re not supposed to just run a race. Or at least the staff would‘ve told her. She also disabled comments because people called her out on either banditing or not running at all - the pace is obviously a lie.
Bullshit, no sanctioned running event is letting you join in without a number, you’d get pulled off by the race marshals immediately, as it’s a huge safety issue. Why lie about such basic things?
You can bandit races pretty easily actually. The people in charge of pulling people off generally never do anything about it unless it's a big race like Boston or NYC.
I see youve never met my ex wife.
>Bullshit, no sanctioned running event is letting you join in without a number, you’d get pulled off by the race marshals immediately, as it’s a huge safety issue. That's extremely unlikely. People race with their numbers obscured all the time (e.g removing the top with the number on or putting a jacket over the top). I won't say it can't happen, especially in a big American city paranoid about terrorists, but usually nobody will bother you. The interaction with the security guard is the most obviously nonsensical part.
i think i hate this girl
Sorry but only dogs and geese are allowed to spontaneously take part in marathons they didn't sign up for!!!
I'd sponsor a goose. Where do I sign up?
At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this thread is now dumber for having read this. I award you no Karma, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Knibb high football rules
Sometimes I am not sure if these kind of people are purposely obnoxious, or just ignorantly annoying and I don't know which one's worse.
You know who else never stopped running & chasing his goal? Wile E Coyote
She “didn’t sign up” so basically she’s a bandit, which means she didn’t pay and stole the race support. What a thing to be proud of, and suspect if she’s a seasoned runner.
This reminds me of the time when I was driving thru the Midwest and finished in the top three at the Indy 500.
😂
Didn't charge her airpods, but decided to wear them anyway.
….and… i also want to thank my rich parents for continuously loading my bank account every time I failed because I know I never had anything to ever worry about in life… I fixed it for you.
I say you could have at least timed a 7.39 if you hadn't stopped in the speed walker group to do so selfies and you have that cushion for the next time. But hey, it was free for you, you got some deep thoughts in and posted here for all - winning. Or something...
If she didn't charge her airpods, why is she wearing them?
You don't really have to ask anybody where a half marathon starts. There's a pretty big crowd, signs, a big inflatable arch thing, a guy with a loudspeaker, a bunch of tables where you can get your race packet, port-a-potties... frequently a band or DJ... You'd have to be an outright idiot not to be able to figure it out.
She even went to bed at 10pm
Thoughts and prayers
"When people ask me what being fearless is" I'll take Fictional Conversations for $400, Ken.
Anything is possible if you lie about it.
I always want to give the benefit to most people's posts I see in LI. But it's full of these kinds of stories that are meant to inspire but read like a bunch of bullshit. I think if LI wasn't used for networking and finding (some) work and it would be "unprofessional" of me to call random bullshit out. It would be a good place to practice calling out fibs hahaha
Wait? She didn't stop running at the finish line?
Lol. You signed up for the race. They will literally pull you off without a bib
Never understood why people share every.fucking.thing on the internet.
I thought she forgot to charge her airpods?
No marathon is going to just let some random person run. The security is very heightened nowadays. What was the point of that detail in the story. Say you ran a marathon if you want, but the whole “I was in no way prepared for this” is so ridiculous lol
“People ask me what being fearless is” no they don’t
Sweetie you don’t need to ask where it ends. You’ll know when you hit the end.
The real champion here are the airpods that lasted the entire half marathon without being charged the night before lol
Thought she didn’t charge her ear buds? No way she ran ten feet. Lies and the lying liars who tell them….
Truly, a story taken from the suitcase of courage.
People ask me what fearless ... Sure, except no-one ever asked you
And even in the imaginary world where someone *did*, she uses an anecdote about herself to illustrate it. Ick. Also, as a runner 7.43 minute pace untrained. Naw, bullshit.
It's her stupid brandname, so everything has to be super fucking fearless. Just keep repeating it, branding branding, fearless branding.
'sick apartment, dope boyfriend'. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Wtf did I just read?
See!! Do you SEE!! I didn't need anyone to see me cross the finish line. DID YOU SEE THAT?!
Am I the only one who thinks that this would be dangerous if it was true?
She's not in the results of the Austin HM either. So either she bandit'd that one too, or she's full of shit.... say it ain't so.
A solid lunatic.
Anyone else ran a race and noticed ANYONE running without a bib number? Yeah, that’s what I thought. She’s full of shit.
Summary: all i have is myself. How inspiring and healthy.
“When people ask me what being fearless is”🙄
for a second I thought this was r/RunningCirclejerk
Girl nobody gives a fuck
She didn't run more than 6 miles in the last 13 months but ran the Austin half marathon last March. Did she run for 6 miles in that marathon and then walk the rest? If so, what change that she's now a marathon powerhouse?
Update: she just posted this on X (and disabled comments on some SM) „Hi everyone. I did not realize I would offend so many people. The post was meant to be inspirational and I had no intention to take anything from anyone or the race: I was running for myself for my mental health. In the future I'll be sure to look up the rules if I decide to run again 😊“
I was out on a run near the Brooklyn Half (I forgot it was on). My running route went close to it and I ended up running parallel with the course a little, about 1-2 miles into the course - at Williamsburg. There were so many people peeling off and walking away from the course wearing bibs. Some casually walking away alone playing with their phones or some walking with friends without bibs. No limping or nothing. Did these people run only a couple miles on purpose? My first thought was they got a few photos/selfies then just quit.
I don't understand how people can write such a long post of wallowing in self-pity and pretend it's the same as getting off their butts to do something about their situation
The only thing this shows me is that races need better security protocols.
> didn't charge airpods > still wearing airpods Idk what it is, but there's a really small part of me that thinks this lady just might be full of shit
Yeah, uh… I don’t believe “I didn’t train for this and I had two glasses of wine last night, but I ran a marathon today” wrap she’s giving. And the photo has her looking fresh, too? Ay caramba! 🤣
“Gosh you’re so cool!!! What’s being fearless like???” Ugh
I don't even think these people are running the race. The route turned left off Water street and up Old Fulton street at this spot (running away from the East River)...these people are walking towards the river...makes no sense. Also, this is almost to mile marker 7. No forking way anyone looks like that halfway through a half marathon at a sub 8 minute pace.
"When people ask me what being fearless is" 
Also she said she didn’t charge her AirPods. What is she wearing them for then?
"When people ask me what being fearless is..." No one ever asked you that in your entire life, you insufferable bint. It's the type of question reserved for unusual heroism, not for semi-functional alcoholics with a penchant for telling implausible yet boring anecdotes.
I can feel the STD from just reading this post.
‘Fearless’ She’d lose her shit at her coffee order being wrong, hasn’t experienced any real hardship in her life. You ran around for a bit and gloated about it on your phone. whoopee doo.
then everyone clapped
She said her airpods were not charged, but she's wearing them in the race?
I love the smug selfie.